Workshop: Write your own crime fiction foregrounding the city

Tue 19 May at 2pm
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In this new collaborative workshop with students from the University of Rouen, participants will be offered the opportunity to try their hand at crime fiction, and, more specifically, explore how cities are represented in such writing. Participants will write in their second language, either French or English, and collaborate on each other’s writing in an immersive experience with native speakers.

Examples of crime fiction in French will be presented and commented on by Cécile Fouache and Julien Morel (University of Rouen), who will be curating the event. The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the tropes and techniques of crime fiction, while exploring the diegetic possibilities offered by Edinburgh – or any other city in which the participants would like to set their short story.

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Cécile Fouache is a lecturer in the English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Rouen. A member of the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Cultural Areas, she directs the Multidisciplinary Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Rouen, for which she has organized several international conferences. Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Jacques Leclaire, focused on "The Art of the Everyday in the Novels of Carol Shields (1935-2003)." Her current research explores Indigenous and identity issues in contemporary Canadian and Australian literature and in the multicultural societies of post-colonial countries.


Julien Morel is lecturer in languages ​​(translation, grammar and linguistics, oral communication) and literature at the University of Rouen. He was also a Language assistant at the University of Edinburgh between 2003 and 2004.

 
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